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Advocacy Committee (SNMMI-TS)
Committee Charges for 2020-21:
- Enhance awareness of advocacy and optimize grassroots activity.
- Support all TAGs in their effort to monitor any changes in their state’s legislative process that affect Nuclear Medicine.
- Encourage TAGs to present CE lectures at all chapters to increase awareness and understanding of the important role that advocacy plays in everyday practice.
- Include all TAGs in bi-monthly conference calls/online meetings to review activity, provide overall opportunity to hear from other TAGs, and educate TAGs on licensure processes.
- Create short educational webinars for TAG members and other nuclear medicine stakeholders to increase knowledge of how the lobbying process works in each state.
- Support SOP committee with their goals and objectives.
- Include all SOP members in bi-monthly conference calls to establish a forum for the completion of goals and objectives.
- Educate regulators and legislators by:
- Working closely with HPRA to assure that regulations and/or legislation does not inhibit the practice of nuclear medicine. These include but are not limited to:
- CMS
- FDA
- DOE
- NRC
- DHS
- Working closely with HPRA to assure that regulations and/or legislation does not inhibit the practice of nuclear medicine. These include but are not limited to:
Additional Goals for 2020-21:
- Monitor the State TAG program
- Partner with CRCPD and OAS to educate regulators in nuclear medicine and to assure that state legislation and regulations do not encroach on the CNMT’s SOP.
Committee Members
| Dmitry D. Beyder, MPA, CNMT | Co-Chairperson |
| Tricia L. Peters, BS, CNMT, PET,RT(CT) | Co-Chairperson |
| Tina M. Buehner, PhD, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Ex-Officio Member |
| Roberta J. Alvarez, MS, ARRT(N)(MR),CNMT | Committee Member |
| Mark H. Crosthwaite, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Lucas J. Gross, MS, CNMT, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Cindi Luckett-Gilbert, MHA,CNMT,FSNMMITS | Committee Member |
| April Mann, MBA,CNMT,NCT,RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Melissa J. Marshall, CNMT, ARRT(CT), AS | Committee Member |
| Nancy McDonald, MHA, CRA, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Matthew C. McMahon, MS, CNMT, RT(CT) | Committee Member |
| Thomas M. Morneau, CNMT, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Cybil J. Nielsen, MBA, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Michele A. Panichi-Egberts, CNMT,RT(N),FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Cheryl L. Rickley, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Melissa Rose, CNMT, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Lynne T. Roy, MBA, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Richard T. Serino, MEd, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Janice D. Van Dolsen, BHS, RT(N), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Joshua Wiley, CNMT, PET | Committee Member |
| Shannon Nixon Youngblood, EdD., MSRS, CNMT | Committee Member |